AN: I would like to start by saying that when I stated that Naruto wouldn't be godlike, I was referring to in the beginning, eventually Naruto will in fact be godlike but for this first one he will not be godlike, not only because he has to hide the fact that he's a shinobi from the wizarding world but also because at the beginning of the Naruto story he wasn't particularly powerful, also as for the review asking about if I'm gonna keep the pairings canon, some yes but others no, you see I have this firm belief that if you're doing a crossover story it should have a crossover pairing, so just so that everyone knows Naruto will end up with a girl from the HPVerse, also I apologize ahead of time if the first few paragraphs are choppy, my brains kind of mush right now, I'm just getting over being Ill, so with that said I don't own Harry Potter or Naruto.
Naruto couldn't help but to be disappointed by how the past two days had gone, yesterday had started out with charms class which the blond had been rather excited about only for it to end in disappointment when the class turned out to be nothing more than an introduction followed by what they would be covering in their first year, although the eleven year old blond did get a kick out of the fact that the teacher was shorter than him. But even though it had been something of a letdown, he had gotten to spend time with his friends, and many of the spells that the old teacher had talked about interested Naruto greatly.
After his first charms class was history of magic, a class that had a ghost as the teacher. The young blond had tried to bolt from the classroom as soon as he had seen the teacher, unfortunately Harry and Ron managed to stop him right outside of the classroom and after a short conversation, and a lot of bribing on Harry and Ron's parts they managed to convince the blond preteen to come back into the classroom and take the seat nearest the door, and so Naruto spent the entirety of the class watching the ghost float back and forth before the black board. The blond did notice how many of the students fell asleep during the class, which if the blond hadn't been so freaked out he probably would have to.
Naruto was the first to bolt out of that class and head for lunch, his fear of ghosts quickly being replaced by thoughts of Ramen. And so his second lunch of the school year passed in relative peace as he and his two friends talked amicably amongst themselves. The blond did notice though how Neville Longbottom continuously avoided him, and it was really starting to piss the blond boy off.
Sadly in the blonds opinion flying class hadn't been near as exciting since their first day as madam Hooch kept a much closer eye on all of them, and none were allowed to fly much more than three feet off the ground at any given time, and no matter how much the whiskered blond asked the teacher to let him fly higher or faster like he had on the first day, it was always met with a negative answer. Naruto's day continued in the same manner, with no homework from any of the days classes and Harry and Ron having taken off to try and get their potions homework from the previous day done, Naruto was left with a unique opportunity to try and get to know the only other person in his year that had already gotten the homework done, one Hermione Granger. An attempt which failed epically in the blonds' opinion as the bushy haired girl had wanted to read her book more then she wanted to talk to the blond, and Naruto in his usual hyperactive way had attempted to get her attention away from the book and to him, the real trouble began though when said blond accidentally knocked the cup of water that another student had left on the table, onto the studious girl, like he said epic fail.
Unfortunately today hadn't been much better for the eleven year old, it had started out with the blonde missing breakfast, and then barely making it to the greasy haired potion masters class, where the boy was subjected to the dark haired professor's attempts to get him to lash out once again. Naruto refusing to let the man get the better of him spent the class taking notes all the while planning just how he was going to get revenge against the older male. The class remained rather uneventful though and was dismissed with the students being told to do an eleven inch paper on the uses of dragon's blood in potion making.
Naruto had been the first student to leave the classrooms at a run as he charged all the way up to the great hall coming to a stop as he all but leapt onto the bench, and pulled the first of what would be a large number of bowls of ramen towards him. The boys had spent the entirety of their lunch break eating quietly, none of them having any desire to talk about neither their previous class nor the homework that had been given at the end of it.
Herbology had fallen short of what the blond expected when the teacher had told them that most of the first year classes would be spent doing book work instead of actually working with the plants themselves. One good thing that came from this class though was that Naruto got the chance to try and apologize to Hermione, key word being tried as the bushy haired girl shushed him the three times that he tried to talk to her.
And so after another boring flying class, Naruto retired to the library where he spent the next few hours completing his potions homework, as well as reading up on the magical community's history, before the blond boy joined his friends in the great hall for dinner once again.
Naruto would spend the next two hours hanging out with Harry and Ron until at the stroke of nine the blond quietly snuck out of the common room, wishing that he could leave a shadow clone behind, but both Dumbledore's and old man Hokage's warnings to not use any form of his shinobi training in front of the other students still rang loud and clear in the whiskered boys mind.
Naruto found it rather funny just how easy it was for him to sneak down the grand staircase and out the front doors; he couldn't help but to wonder if it would be that easy for everyone or, if it was so easy for him because of his childhood. Naruto was quick to shake any thoughts of his childhood from his mind before he sprinted across the grounds and into the dark forest so that he could train.
Naruto sighed as he entered another clearing only to realize that like the last few the vegetation here was most likely used not only for potions ingredients but also as a food source for the local wildlife. This meant that just like the last few the blond boy couldn't train here and risk destroying the fauna. The eleven year old exhaled as he leaned against a tree, his blue eyes quickly finding the moon, and he had to admit that it was rather beautiful out here, it remind the youth of Konoha and even though it had only been a little over four days since he had last seen his home the blond couldn't help but to feel a little homesick. His thoughts on his home were quickly erased as he heard the distinctive sound of leaves crinkling behind him so with a practiced ease the blond was quick to spin and face what he viewed as a threat Kunai at the ready, only for said blade to slip from his fingers at the sight that greeted him. Standing not ten feet from him was the two Unicorn foals that he had seen the other night when he was out here with Hagrid. Naruto was careful not to move remembering what the much larger man had told him about unicorns as they were leaving, and so the blond just stood there letting them decide what would happen next. The whiskered boy couldn't help but to smile as the two slowly walked over to him, coming to a stop mere feet in front of him. He reached out to them with tentative hands so that he wouldn't frighten them away, only for them to step forward, gently nuzzling their snouts into the palms of his hands. His smile grew as he gently moved his palms along the twos snouts, causing both foals to step closer toward the whiskered blond. Naruto would spend the next fifteen minutes doing nothing more than petting the young animals, a small smile decorating his face the entire time, before he remembered why he had come out here in the first place.
"Crap" the blond groaned as he realized that if he was going to find a good place to train he would have to leave the two majestic animals so that he could begin searching again. Knowing that he needed to become stronger if he was ever going to achieve his dream of becoming Hokage, the blond gently patted the unicorn's necks one last time before turning to resume his so far fruitless search. The blond had only taken a few steps away from the unicorns foals, before his attention was drawn back to them by a loud snort. He didn't whip around this time though, instead his turn was much slower his blue eyes widening as they caught sight of the much larger unicorn that was standing powerfully behind the other much younger ones. Naruto wasn't sure what exactly he was going to do next as he simply continued to stare into the older unicorns chocolate colored eyes. Any plans that he might have been coming up with were quickly erased though, when the newest addition to the litter group that had formed snorted a second time, this time though it threw its head to the left as if signaling the blond to follow it. Naruto remembering that Hagrid had claimed unicorn to be incredibly smart, decided to follow the much larger animal, the group moved slowly so that the two unicorn foals could keep up with them but after a fifteen minute trek the whiskered eleven year old found himself standing on the outskirts of a rather large clearing, one of the first things the youth noticed was the sound or lack thereof, it was almost completely silent, which made since when one took into account the lack of living vegetation, this whole clearing appeared to be dead, and Naruto couldn't help but to wonder just what the hell could do make an entire clearing devoid of life. Realizing though that with the lack of vegetation, and animal life that this would be a perfect place for him to train, Naruto quickly brought his fingers together in what he figured would become one of his most used jutsu's, the blond created a dozen more of himself, before with a smile they all charged at one another to begin working on the blonds taijutsu.
Harry couldn't help but to wonder just were his blond friend disappeared to, the dark haired youth had first thought that the blond may have gone to the library to do the potions homework that they had been given, only for that theory to be shot down after he and Ron went to look for him. They had continued to look for their whiskered friend for another forty-five minutes, finding no clue as to where the blond preteen had disappeared off to, and Harry would be lying if he were to say that he wasn't at least a little bit concerned at the fact that they had found no trace of the blond boy. Harry sighed as he realized that it was already midnight, and so with a resigned sigh the dark haired youth gave up on his search for the night, deciding instead to question his blond haired friend in the morning.
A pair of brown eyes followed the dark haired boy's path up the stairs before quickly returning to the large book that was held open in front of her, but try as she might Hermione couldn't focus her attention on the book that she had checked out, as her thoughts continually returned to the fact that no one had seen Naruto since about an hour after dinner. The bushy haired brunette couldn't help but to be somewhat worried about the whiskered boy, after all he was one of the very few that had gone out of his way to help her over the past couple of days. Memories of the past few days came rushing back to the forefront of her mind, causing a small albeit genuine smile to appear upon her face. Her first memory of the blond still made her question his intelligence as she remembered him examining Ron's rat to see if the spell that the red haired boy cast had worked at all, Hermione had come to realize though that it wasn't so much the fact that he was unintelligent, it was that he had believed in the red head, this memory was quickly followed by the memory of their first potions class when not only Harry but Naruto stood up against the potions teacher, informing him that it was a mistake not to call on her, as well as stating that she should be acknowledged for her intelligence, a fact that still shocked the girl to some degree. That memory smoothly transitioned to the memory of lunch that day when Naruto had not only gone out of his way to help her collect her notes, he had gone so far as to chase after her just to make sure that she was okay. Each of these memories made the small smile on Hermione's face grow as she knew that the blond boy didn't do them for thanks or adulation but simply because he cared about them. All these memories faded as she remembered what had happened the day before,
She had been thoroughly engrossed in a book about the history of the Gryffindor family, since in her opinion as a Gryffindor she should know about the family. She had noticed when the blond boy had began attempting to gain her attention but the book was so interesting that she simply had to finish the page before she lost her place. Unfortunately that became harder as the seconds passed as the blond boy persisted on attempting to get her attention, and it became rather funny as he almost seemed to be dancing around in front of her, this continued for another minute before one of the blonds flapping arms inadvertently knocked a half filled cup of water onto her. She barely suppressed her laughter as she remembered the horrified look that had appeared on the whiskered boys face after that. Hermione wasn't angry with the blond, even though she had every right to be, she realized that it was an accident but she hadn't told the blond that and considering the fact that the blond had spent the better part of today avoiding her she figured that he thought that she was angry with him, so with that in mind Hermione decided to wait just a little longer to see if the blond boy showed up so that she could inform him that she wasn't angry with him.
Naruto groaned as he stepped through the entry tunnel, first he had gotten the crud beat out of him by his clones, admittedly fighting twelve of him at once was a little stupid but he figured that it would help him get stronger faster; all it actually did was leave him really sore. And then after making the long walk back up the grand staircase he was greeted with the fat woman being really rude to him about the fact that he had woke her up. All Naruto wanted now was to change into his pajamas and crawl into his bed, but he was shocked to see Hermione sitting in one of the chairs a large book lying on the floor next to the chair. Naruto knew that she was probably still angry with him and to wake her up at half past one in the morning just to suggest that she climb into her bed, seemed like a foolish move to the blond so taking that into consideration, as well as the fact that the fire was slowly dying the whiskered boy quickly slipped his orange cloak off his shoulders before draping it over the still sleeping girls shoulders. He spent another minute making sure that it wouldn't slip off her easily Naruto climbed the stairs, and after quickly changing into his pajamas and almost jamming his sleeping cap onto his cranium Naruto fell onto his bed with a soft sigh, sleep over taking him almost instantly.
Hermione was woken from her rather uncomfortable sleep to the sound of giggles, at first the bushy haired girl didn't want to move as she pulled the blanket that was draped over her closer, only for her eyes to shoot open as she remembered that she didn't have a blanket when she fell asleep last night, it only took the rather intelligent girl a second to recognize the orange cloak that was currently draped over her. A warm feeling began to spread through the young girl like wild fire, as the fact that Naruto's cloak was draped over her was just another sign of the fact that even when the blond thought she was angry at him, he was still willing to look out for her. She was pulled from her thoughts when she overheard one of the other students talking about how they needed to get to breakfast soon, but she couldn't help but to wonder where the blond boy had disappeared to the night before. Almost as if summoned by her thoughts Hermione watched as the blond haired boy raced down the stairs and out of the portrait door, the pink ladies angry shouts following after. Hermione chuckled softly at the blond's usual exuberance before she began to make her way out of the commons room and down towards the great hall at a much more subdued pace.
Naruto barely heard the fat ladies shouts as he charged for the bathroom fully intending to get in a quick bath before he went to breakfast. He didn't have to run far as the Gryffindor's bathroom wasn't very far from their common room, and so after quickly stripping himself Naruto dove into the already filled bath tub. Before the boy realized it he was softly singing, a habit that had begun when he was younger in the hopes to strive off the horrible silence that usually surrounded his time in the bathroom, he couldn't remember where he had first heard the song but the lyrics had simply stuck with him.
"There can be miracles, when you believe, though hope is frail it's hard to kill" the words resonated off the walls, Naruto knew that someone could come in at any time but he found that even though it would be rather embarrassing for someone to hear him singing he simply didn't care, and so the blond spent the next fifteen minutes scrubbing all the sweat from the previous night off of himself, occasionally picking the song up at a certain part. "you will when you believe." he finished softly as he tied his shoes before making his way out of the bathroom, and heading down the grand staircase towards breakfast and hopefully a more exciting day then the previous two.
AN: hey everyone sorry about how long it took to get this chapter out, I hope that everyone enjoyed it. I apologize for the start being rather choppy, I had some trouble writing it, finally about the song that he was singing it was when you believe from the prince of Egypt movie, a movie that I have personally never seen, but there is a very good AMV on YouTube about Naruto and his father Minato using this song, plus I think that it really suits Naruto. So please R&R
